Can anyone explain what the $20 million for the U.S. Institute of Peace in FY26 appropriations will be funding?

At least 16 people have died as ferocious wildfires gripped Southern Chile, burning homes and thousands of hectares of land, the authorities said Sunday.

In what ways can and should #climatemobility be financed through the Fund for responding to #LossandDamage? How much will it cost? Hear from the experts at this @carnegieendowment.org event ⬇️ carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/...

Fragmentation, deinstitutionalization and #militarization, combined with the erosion of many values-based norms, threaten the very survival of the multilateral system. This #SIPRI publication discusses the changing landscape of #conflictmanagement and #peacebuilding. 🕊️Read more: bit.ly/49mQe5a

New analysis out today from Rhodium Group showing data centres were one of the major drivers of the first rise in total economy-wide emissions in the US in years Uncontrolled growth of demand has helped boost coal growth, in conjunction with the LNG export boom -> rhg.com/research/us-...

@iom.int & Ruta del Clima created the first-ever costing tool to quantify #LnD for #plannedrelocation & disaster #displacement. Results in #CostaRica & #Chile calculated that governments would need to invest around $65,384 per household to address LnD. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2026/0...

"Power generation from coal fell by 1.6% in China and by 3.0% in India in 2025, as non-fossil energy sources grew quickly enough in both countries to cover electricity consumption growth."

NEW – Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/Mkjsh61

The WIM Secretariat recently released its “Technical guide on accessing financial resources aiming to avert, minimize and address the impacts of displacement associated with the adverse effects of climate change” A real mouthful! But worth the read! unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

Bill Gates changing his tune on climate change investment... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Looks like an Onion headline

"Withdrawing from the #UNFCCC will mean the US no longer has a seat at the annual “conference of the party” (Cop) meetings, and ..from the #IPCC will mean the US no longer has a veto over the “summary for policymakers” that accompanies its seven-yearly reports." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I hope Sue Biniaz’s take (and she is in a position to know these things having worked on the issues a long time at State) that the US could rejoin the UNFCCC easily, is what happens. I also hope thar groups litigate the withdrawal as well though am less confident that would win in court.

#Hopecore PSA: the Year of the Horse, which promises big change, officially starts February 17 🤞

Columbia & Harvard researchers find that 📈 temperatures are associated with ⬆️ interpersonal & self-inflicted violence-related Medicaid hospital visits in the United States www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Stark @nytimes.com update on those displaced by #wildfires last year in the #LA area: "More than 70 percent of residents who were displaced remain so, while 4 out of 10 fire survivors have taken on debt and almost half have wiped out much of their savings" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

I get asked all the time about data needed to make better climate risk decisions Usually not another gridded temp map (sorry) But better adaptation data would help! - Households behind non-accredited levees paid 2x for flood insurance vs accredited levee iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

I wrote a book about the problems with bottled water ("Bottled and Sold") several years ago. Here's just another reason to avoid it. www.wired.com/story/people...

❄️Today (December 21) marks the first official day of the Winter Season. Winter isn't what it used to be for generations past. The season has warmed, on average by 3.9°F, in 98% of 244 U.S. cities. In our warming world, the coldest days aren’t as cold, and cold snaps don’t stick around as long

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It seems to me that ProPublica management is seriously misjudging who their readers are

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

“To shutter this facility is, frankly, a national security risk,” Kim Cobb told @bloomberg.com about NCAR, given its cutting-edge work on extreme weather and across fields including machine learning and AI. Story w/ @eroston.bsky.social @willwwade.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Professor friends…anyone still interested in moving to Canada? The government and UBC want you! research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

Great points from Gov. Polis in this article -- destroying NCAR puts American families at risk and weakens the United States geopolitically. It's a national & homeland security own goal.

We are pleased to share the latest Nansen Initiative +10 blog on 'Disaster- and climate-related human mobility in the Americas: A decade of progress since the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda' @unhcr.org climatemobility.unsw.edu.au/blog/americas/

#MigrantSmuggling Restrictions don’t “break the business model” of smugglers — they boost it. 61% of smugglers in West and North Africa say demand increased and 35% link it directly to stricter border measures. More restrictions = more demand. All findings: https://f.mtr.cool/akdhkfsfyf

This is a huge and terrible development and shows the degradation of asylum worldwide. https:/www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/04/aid-cuts-africa-uganda-stops-refugee-status-eritreans-somalis-ethiopians

10 years ago, 109 governments endorsed the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda on disaster displacement. In this podcast, Prof Walter Kaelin - Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement - and I reflect on that time and what's happened since climatemobility.unsw.edu.au/blog/podcast/

I'm updating my graduate-level course on climate-related displacement. What are some new or innovative pieces to add to my reading list?

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Ocean stress remains among the most underappreciated stresses to security in the 21st century. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal. However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

New report from @NRDC and @EDF on funding voluntary buyouts. Buyouts not only allow high-risk property owners to move somewhere safer but also the newly acquired properties can become part of the community’s longer-term climate resilience plans. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.

🔌 A new report shows power outages are lasting longer as extreme weather takes a bigger toll. • Average longest outage jumped from 8.1 hours in 2022 → 12.8 hours by mid-2025 • The South saw the worst of it with 18.2hrs outages, with the West next at 12.4hrs www.utilitydive.com/news/power-o...

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

"Iran is facing its worst water crisis in decades. With no end in sight and authorities warning they may even have to evacuate the capital of 10 million people, residents like Ensani are scrambling to respond." www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

As Chile votes today, an election dominated by . . . you guessed it, crime and migration. www.economist.com/the-americas...

New report identifies major surge in water-related conflicts. Violence over water is reported in every region of the world. Pacific Institute releases an update to the Water Conflict Chronology, now documenting over 2750 cases over more than 4000 years. #water www.worldwater.org/water-confli...

Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

stat is bonkers - and why isn’t greater efficiency a competitive aim & boasting point in this field…?

@nytimes.com I’d like to argue that Pavlovian is a word!

As #COP30 kicks off today in Brazil, what are our key messages on human mobility? The Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility, @lossanddamage.bsky.social, @cmdplatform.bsky.social, Pacific Migration Partners & many other brilliant folks have these asks: tinyurl.com/COP30mobilitymessages

Looking to understand where and how #climatemobility may play a role at #COP30? Check out the Platform on Disaster Displacement's key messages: disasterdisplacement.org/wp-content/u...